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1. Groszman family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2016.95.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-2010
… Margit’s sister Helén’s (1900-1944) husband Géza Abelesz (1896-1944). Their business was forced to close in 1940 after new laws prohibited Jews from the…
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 … was forced to close in 1940 after new laws prohibited Jews from the agricultural commodities business. The family moved to Budapest in Fall 1941. In…
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2. Bleier and Weisz families papers
2016.162.1 Box 1 Folder 8 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2016.162.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1898-2005
… House which sheltered around 2000 Jews until Budapest was liberated by the Russians in February 1945. After the war, she was reunited with her family who…
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 … 2,000 Jews until Budapest was liberated by the Russians in February 1945. After the war, she was reunited with her family who all survived. Due to…
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3. Corpses of Jews in the courtyard of the Dohany Street Synagogue.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 02434
Date:
January 1945 - February 1945
…Corpses of Jews in the courtyard of the Dohany Street Synagogue.…
4. The corpses of Jews lie in the courtyard of the Dohany Street Synagogue.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 02438
Date:
January 1945 - February 1945
…The corpses of Jews lie in the courtyard of the Dohany Street Synagogue.…
5. The corpses of Jews in the courtyard of the Dohany Street Synagogue.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 02437
Date:
January 1945 - February 1945
…The corpses of Jews in the courtyard of the Dohany Street Synagogue.…
6. Corpses of Jews in the courtyard of the Dohany Street Synagogue.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 02435
Date:
January 1945 - February 1945
…Corpses of Jews in the courtyard of the Dohany Street Synagogue.…
7. Selected records from Romanian diplomatic missions
Document | Accession Number: 2004.561 | RG Number: RG-25.020
Date:
inclusive: 1920-1950
bulk: 1935-1945
Special Collection:
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
…), Lisbon (Portugal), London (UK), Paris (France). The Washington records show the concern of American Jews about the treatment of Jews in Romania in the 1920…
8. Finland Ministry of Foreign Affairs Archives records
Document | Accession Number: 2001.36 | RG Number: RG-29.001M
Date:
inclusive: 1929-1950
… Jews, including files on the "Jewish question," and Finnish emigration policy. Other miscellaneous documents include personal name lists of Jewish and…
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 …, August 2002 2 Finnish Foreign Ministry files on various matters related to Jews, including files on the "Jewish question", and the Finnish emigration…
9. Forschungsdokumentationen Dr. theol. Theo Tschuy
Document | Accession Number: 2012.281 | RG Number: RG-58.021
Date:
inclusive: 1920-2003
Alternate Title:
Research papers of Dr. theol. Theo Tschuy (1990 - 2003)
… certificates (endorsed by the British authorities), to Jews seeking to escape from Hungary. In his efforts to shield Hungarian Jewry from persecution, Lutz also…
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 …: Carl Lutz und die Juden von Budapest, Zürich: NZZ libro, 1995. Tschuy, Theo: Dangerous diplomacy. The story of Carl Lutz, rescuer of 62000 Hungarian Jews…
10. Maria Madi diaries
2013.264.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2013.264.1
Date:
inclusive: 1914-1967
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… describes the invasion and occupation of Budapest and what she saw and heard of the war. She also writes extensively about the persecution of the Jews…
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 … constant air raids, intense deprivation, and what she knows and sees of the ongoing persecutions against Jews. She also references a young boy and his aunt…
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11. Piroska Berki and Gustave Balog family papers
2000.16 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2000.16
Date:
inclusive: 1873-1982
… discrimination she faced as a Jew living in Hungary. Gustave’s memoirs go into great detail about the family’s historical background. Gustave was a cousin of…
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 … discrimination she faced as a Jew living in Hungary. Gustave’s memoirs go into great detail about the family’s historical background. Gustave was a cousin of…
12. Anonymous diaries from Hungarian woman
2014.465.2 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 2014.465.2
Date:
inclusive: 1942-1945
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… in Subotica (Szabadka), Serbia; the worsening situation for Jews in the spring of 1944; her arrest and transport to camps at Bácsalmás (Hungary) and…
13. Rohony family papers
2011.377.1 Box 1 Folder 5 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 2011.377.1
Date:
inclusive: 1937-1957
bulk: 1944
… Jew, was forced into the Hungarian labor battalions and taken to Transylvania. After a little over a year of labor there, János was moved to a work…
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 … hundred employees producing chemicals and plastics. In the summer of 1943 János, a Jew, was forced into the Hungarian labor battalions and taken to…
14. Yellow cloth Star of David badge worn by a Jewish boy in Budapest
2013.468.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2013.468.2
Date:
use: 1944 April 06-1945
… elements and was closely allied with Germany. Antisemitic measures based upon the Nuremberg racial laws in Germany were passed in the 1930s. Jews lost their…
15. Pick family photograph collection
1999.282.13 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 65
Document | Accession Number: 1999.282.13
Date:
inclusive: circa 1912-1946
… 1941. Modeled after Germany’s Nuremberg Laws they defined Jews in racial terms, excluded Jews from various professions, and severely restricted their…
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 …’s anti-Jewish laws were passed between 1938 and 1941. Modeled after Germany’s Nuremberg Laws they defined Jews in racial terms, excluded Jews from various…
16. Allegorical steel sculpture made to honor Raoul Wallenberg by an artist who was one of the 1000s saved by his efforts
2012.338.9 front
Object | Accession Number: 2012.338.9
Date:
creation: 2010-2012
commemoration: 1944-1945
Series Title:
The War Series
Artwork Title:
Homage to Wallenberg
… elements and was closely allied with Germany. Antisemitic measures based upon the Nuremberg racial laws in Germany were passed in the 1930s. Jews lost their…
17. Small suitcase used by a Hungarian Jewish family while living in hiding
1999.282.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 1999.282.2
Date:
use: 1944 March-1945 January
… 1941. Modeled after Germany’s Nuremberg Laws they defined Jews in racial terms, excluded Jews from various professions, and severely restricted their…
18. Small leather suitcase used by a Hungarian Jewish family while living in hiding
2003.442.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.442.2 a- b
Date:
use: 1944 November-1945 February
received: approximately 1930
… 1941. Modeled after Germany’s Nuremberg Laws they defined Jews in racial terms, excluded Jews from various professions, and severely restricted their…
19. Dezső Kertész papers
Document | Accession Number: 2011.456.2
Date:
inclusive: 1918-1945
…Jews--Hungary--Budapest.…
20. Green knapsack used by a Hungarian Jewish man in forced labor
2002.176.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2002.176.1
Date:
use: approximately 1941-1945
… 1935, which defined Jews in racial terms. They excluded them from various professions, restricted their opportunities in economic life, and stripped them…